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In most one-shot or short-lived human interactions, you can use the Personality Ethic to get by and to make favorable impressions through charm and skill and pretending to be interested in other people's hobbies. But eventually, if there isn't deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationship failure will replace short-term success.
~Stephen R. Covey
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If our hearts have not come to rest in God, we will search in vain for any other place that is safe. Our Creator is the only personal being who can be counted on unreservedly. We may commit ourselves to Him without fear, there being no possibility that He will ever betray us or fail to keep His commitments ... we shouldn't expect of others what God alone is able to deliver. Only God can be a perfect source of confidence, and it's sinful on our part to try to make anyone else fill the role that He alone was meant to fill.
~ Gary Henry, Reaching Forward, March 31
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